Curb-Stomp Battle: During the second fight with Gluttony, she subdues him and nearly kills him all by herself, with some assistance from Ling; she would've been able to kill him herself if her automail didn't act up.

Detect Evil: She can sense homunculi and the Philosopher's Stone under Amestris.

Determinator - Plucky Girl: She cut off her own arm just so Wrath would lose track of her and Ling, and then later managed to recover from the painful and grueling automail surgery and rehabilitation that normally takes 2-3 years to recover from in 6 months.

Xing's Alkahestry, being for medicinal purposes likely sped up the recovery.

Oh it gets even better than that. She actually didn't fully recover from it in that time period. Didn't stop her at all from showing up and kicking ass in the end!

I Will Only Slow You Down: Tries to pull this when injured and slung over Ling's shoulder while actively being pursued by Bradley. When her attempts to convince Ling that she is not worth saving if it means the loss of his life fail, she cuts her arm off instead to throw Bradley off their trail.

The official sketch book names her "Ranfun", but shouldn't be considered the definitive spelling, since this same volume lists Al's last name as "Elrick".

The eyecatches of Brotherhood say it's Lan Fan.

Take My Hand: Refuses to let go of Greed/Ling's hand when he and Wrath were dangling over the side of a bridge, despite his warning that her automail couldn't take the strain. It actually started to tear away from her shoulder but she still wouldn't let go.

Trick Bomb: Seems to prefer the regular Xing grenade and the occasional flashbang.

Tsundere: Ling is the recipient of her dere; those who dare so much as look at him the wrong way suffer her tsun, thus making her Type A. However, this trait becomes downplayed to nonexistence by the end of her Character Development.

Unstoppable Rage: Inverted, as getting into a rage over protecting Ling actually makes her weaker and prone to mistakes. Ed takes advantage of this and insults Ling during their first fight to make her easier to fight.

Bottomless Magazines: You may be wondering where she gets all those throwing knives. This trope is averted by Fridge Brilliance in that she simply transmutes more from available material.

Child Prodigy: Expert at alkahestry and martial arts, and she is still not a teenager yet.

Chronic Hero Syndrome: A somewhat milder case although in the end, instead of returning to her country with Envy, she decides to stay in Amestris to help everyone. Ling does note that she lost her chance to make her clan win by involving herself in another country's business.

Love Before First Sight: Develops a crush on Ed after misinterpreting a description of the Fullmetal Alchemist and his legendary exploits, coming to believe he's a Knight in Shining Armor. Then she finds out what Ed's really like, she drops him for Al for similar, but less exaggerated reasons.

Maybe Ever After: It's implied that she got together with Al since she appears in the new Elric Family Photo.

The Medic: Knows some healing alchemy. Oddly enough, she fills this role for her group more than her teammate Marcoh, who is an actual doctor.

Perky Female Minion: She fits this to the extent that while she is rather cheerful, the character she follows Scar is very much The Stoic. Granted, Scar is well on his way to being an Anti-Hero by the time she meets him.

Pet Baby, Wild Animal: She found Shao May after she had been abandoned by the other pandas due to her stunted growth and has taken care of her ever since.

Plucky Girl: Crosses a Sahara Desert expy and into an unfriendly militaristic nation ALONE, picks a fight while still recovering from a concussion, and attacks the Big Bad even while knowing that she is totally outclassed by him. Even after being badly wounded, she continues to help out in the final battle.May Chang does not give up.

Rapunzel Hair: It's both braided and wrapped up in buns—it'd probably go to her feet if she let it down.

Settle for Sibling: After Ed doesn't turn to be what she expected, she falls for his brother Al.

Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Develops a crush on Ed after misinterpreting a description of the Fullmetal Alchemist and his legendary exploits, coming to believe he's a Knight in Shining Armor. After meeting him in person, she quickly drops her infatuation. Instead, she falls for his brother, Al who fits the "knight in shining armor" description better.

Weak, but Skilled: Once he intruded on the fight between Wrath and Greed, Bradley started to take the fight much more seriously. Despite Fu being unable to lay a single blow on Bradley, Bradley actually complimented the older warrior for his skills, even expressing disappointment at having to kill him

Badass Bookworm: Not actually in the beat-em-up sense, but his grit and determination are pretty badass.

Batman Gambit: He basically knew that Envy would track him down, knowing from experience how much the homunculi like to wreck his life.

Beware the Nice Ones: A milder example, but by being a Badass BookwormEnvy finds this out the hard way. Turns out Marcoh also knows all the weaknesses of a Philosopher's Stone too, and is perfectly willing to exploit them.

Death Seeker: On first meeting Scar, he begs the assassin to kill him.

Good Scars, Evil Scars: His horrifically mangled face serves as a symbol of his guilt and attempts to atone for his actions in Ishval.

The Grotesque: Instead of killing him as requested, Scar disfigures him horribly, so they can travel without Marcoh being recognized.

Let's Get Dangerous: You thought taking out poor helpless old Marcoh would be a piece of cake, didn't you Envy? Maybe you shouldn't have taught the guy everything you knew about Philosopher's Stones, particularly the bits about homunculi being made out of them, and how to destroy them.

Like a God to Me: Tim Marcoh, being largely responsible for the near extermination of the Ishvalan race, ends up saying this to Scar, one of the surviving Ishvalans, as a sign of his own humility, but it only serves to piss Scar off.

Suicide by Cop: He wants to die without his beloved village being destroyed by the Homunculi. So when Scar shows up in their compound, he tries to punch Scar's Berserk Button and make his death look like an accident. Scar doesn't kill him, instead he kidnaps him and uses him to get information. Sorry, Marcoh. You were a few days worth of Character Development too late for that.

Once an insufferable and deeply corrupt bureaucrat that ran the mines in the town of Youswell, Yoki was discharged from the military when the Fullmetal Alchemist showed up for an inspection and lost all his money thanks to his own carelessness. In time, he was found by Scar, who not-entirely-willingly took Yoki on as his sidekick.

Belated Backstory: In the anime, the story of how he got kicked out of the military and his history with the Brothers Elric isn't fully related until episode 38, twenty-five episodes after his first appearance.

Break the Haughty: In his first chapter, he goes from a petty despot looking to climb the ranks to a bum.

Starting A New Life: From corrupt government official to Scar's sidekick, and eventually becomes, of all things, a circus clown. Although given his expression in the picture revealing this, that last one was not necessarily his own choice.

Sig Curtis

Voiced by: Seiji Sasaki (JP), Bob Carter (EN)

Affiliation: None Rank: None Speciality: Super-Strength

Izumi's husband. A meat butcher who is very protective of his wife, often accompanying her on her travels around Amestris.

Winry's aged — but still very spry — grandmother. Pinako is a master automail engineer who taught Winry everything she knows; it was she who first applied Ed's prosthetic limbs. Also Hohenheim's old drinking buddy.

The common-law wife of Van Hohenheim and the mother of Edward and Alphonse Elric. She was a sweet, gentle woman who was loved dearly by her entire family, even by Hohenheim, who despite having left them, was reluctant to do so. Trisha tries to last until his return, though she ultimately dies of an illness. Ed and Al's attempt to revive her with human transmutation set the events of the series in motion.

Death by Origin Story: Died of an illness about five years ago and gave birth to the full metal alchemist.

A serial killer that guards the hidden laboratory used to create the red stones. After being used as a subject in transmutation experiments, his soul was placed into a suit of armor not unlike Al's. While he works for both Roy and the Homunculi over the course of the story, he doesn't really care as long as he gets to chop stuff up.

Nightmare Fetishist: His original body, now a mindless zombie, constantly chases him on orders from the Homunculi. Being close to him affects his blood seal and threatens to destroy both of them. But rather then stay the heck away from it, Barry gleefully chases it because he finds to the idea of murdering his own flesh to be really cool. Too bad he got killed in the process. This is later made extra-ironic in that given the eventual relationship Al is shown to have with his body (which is in the gate), killing his own body would have likely caused his soul to be destroyed anyway!

Pet the Dog: Doesn't want to stand by and let Maria Ross get convicted of a crime she didn't commit.

Serial Killer: Started after he decided there wasn't much difference between cutting up beef and cutting up humans.

Token Evil Teammate: Roy keeps him on a proverbial leash and points him at his own enemies. Since all Barry cares about is chopping things up he charges in that direction. Although he's much more restrained than before, since he only goes after the Homunculi and his possessed body.

Mysterious guardian of the Gates, claims to be "Reality", "the World", and "God". Not having a form of his own, he takes on the outline of whoever approaches him. Whenever someone attempts human transmutation, (except those who have the Philosopher's Stone) he forces them to pay a toll for trepassing in God's domain. However, he always gives them alchemical skill and knowledge proportional to their sacrifice. Despite his apparent neutrality, he seems to take sadistic pleasure in his tolls, often giving out ironic punishments. Because of him, Ed and Al have lost their limbs and body, and Izumi has lost several internal organs.

Brown Note: Kind of; looking at him won't kill you or drive you insane, but it does come with a hefty viewing fee. And there are NO exceptions...

Empathic Shapeshifter: Of a sort. He doesn't change shape according to your mood, but he does change to match your appearance. Ed saw him as a Creepy Child, Izumi saw him as a taller, more feminine looking adult, Roy saw him as a tall muscular man and Father saw him as a shadowy ball of nothingness.

Good Is Not Nice: A stretch, but despite the heavy prices it collects from those, who perform Human Transmutations, he seems to be more of Cruel to Be Kind as his main goal is to teach alchemists that alchemy isn't everything. When Edward figures that out, Truth is overjoyed and lets the deal to reclaim Al's body be made.

Graceful Loser: When Ed finally learns his lesson, The Truth is overjoyed and is happy to let Al return to the real world.

Humanoid Abomination: The form he takes is humanoid, but featureless—barring whatever toll he just exacted from you.

I Have Many Names: "One name you might have for me is 'the world', or perhaps 'the universe', or perhaps 'God' or perhaps 'The Truth'. I am all and I am one. So this also means that I am you."

Ironic Hell: Ironic punishment anyway, inflicted on those who attempt to raise the dead.

(To Homunculus) "Despair to the conceited."

Jerkass Gods: The Truth reflects the individuals who stand before him, and we usually encounter him from Ed's perspective. This ensues. Turned up to eleven when Father is finally dragged before him for judgment.

Kick the Dog and Pet the Dog: Taking Roy's sight. On one hand, Roy did not perform human transmutation by his own will; he was forced bodily into it. On the other hand, compared to people who lost limbs or organs, blindness is an extremely light toll and he still gave Roy the ability to transmute without a circle. On top of that, Roy is constantly attended to by Riza Hawkeye, who completely mitigates this punishment's practical applications. Furthermore, it was only a temporary handicap because Dr. Marcoh's Philosopher's Stone was used to cure him. Something that a keeper of a gate with all knowledge inside referring to itself as things like "reality", "the world", "all", "one", "you", and "God", would know.

In the English Brotherhood dub, his line calls back to the Japanese version's "Voice of the Legion of the subject" thing which the English dub only does with this one line in episode 63.

Truth:"YOU'VE DONE IT! THAT'S THE RIGHT ANSWER! GOOD JOB! YOU BEAT ME! GO AHEAD! TAKE HIM HOME! THE BACK DOOR IS RIGHT OVER THERE! GOODBYE, EDWARD ELRIC!"

Phrase Catcher: When an unfortunate alchemist asks who/what he is, Truth always gives the same answer.

Truth: I am "the world". Or perhaps "the universe". I am "God". I am "Truth". I am "all". I am "one". And... I am you.

Shadow Archetype: Though in an odd way. It is the approximate size and shape of anyone attempting to converse with it. In chapter 108 when Homunculus talks to it, Truth takes the shape of a small sphere, just like Homunculus.

Word of God is that every alchemist has their own Truth-kun - (s)he is the part of the One that connects to the All that is the world. The last chapter confirms this. It probably also reflects their personalities. It is Jerk Ass to Edward, nice to Al, and unrelentingly cruel to Father.

Part Snake. She goes forces herself inside Al's armor to slow him down, during Greed's bid for immortality.

Cute Monster Girl: Martel/Marta is a good-looking young woman with great flexibility, a contrast to the more overt mutations of other chimera characters. In particular, the other reptilian chimera, Bido, is fairly ugly.

Fragile Speedster: She's fast and flexible, but also smaller than the other chimeras.

Part lizard. Greed's messenger, and the only survivor of Bradley's raid.

Back for the Dead: Disappears from the story after becoming the Sole Survivor of Wrath's massacre of his buddies. Then reappears just to stumble into Father's base and get killed by Greed II, causing Greed II to recover the original Greed's Genetic Memory.

Kimblee's Chimeras

Group as a Whole

A group of chimes that Kimblee brought with him to Briggs - knowing that he can't trust Armstrong's men. Eventually, all four are left for dead by Kimblee, and all end up betraying him in the end. Zampano and Jerso join up with Marcoh and Scar, while Darius and Heinkel save Edward after he was nearly killed by Kimblee, and later join Edward.

Badass Crew: Chimeras are much stronger than the usual soldier, but these four are clear standouts. They can easily go toe-to-toe with Homunculi, or even Scar!

Reverse Mole: After joining the heroes, he seems to be revealed as The Mole and calls Envy to alert him of their location. Actually he never turned on the heroes, and the call was a trick to lead Envy into a trap.

Kimblee's former henchman who takes the form of a Gorilla. After he and Heinkel are left for dead by Kimblee, they're both saved by a dying Edward. They in turn, save him and become his True Companions.

Ambiguously Gay: In the 4-Koma Theater animated shorts, he seems attracted to men. On the main series, he shows disappointment when Heinkel's lion form does not have paw pads, implying he fetished about his furry form.

Minor Characters

A young girl living in the Eastern Amestrian town of Liore. A former Letoist adherent, Rosé was a devout follower of the false prophet Cornello until Edward and Alphonse Elric intervened in the priest's deception of the townspeople and opened her eyes to the truth.

Break the Cutie: Her faith in God and that her loved ones will come back to her is stripped away and she feels like she's lost everything. However, Ed tells her to use her two strong legs to keep walking, allowing her to get back on her feet.

Idiot Hair: Like most characters, she has one piece of hair that sticks up.

The Tragic Rose: She was an orphan and her boyfriend died, leaving her with no one. Father Cornello promised her a way to bring her boyfriend back, so she became a devout Letoist follower. Turns out Cornello was a fake. After Ed and Al reveal to her the truth, she breaks down.

The first villain the Elrics go up against, Cornello was the leader of the Church of Leto, a cult that controlled the town of Liore. In reality, he was a power-hungry alchemist whose "miracles" were actually performed with a Philosopher's Stone. What Cornello didn't know was that he was an Unwitting Pawn for Father, and as soon as he outlived his usefulness, Lust and Gluttony killed him.

The "Sewing-Life" alchemist, who specializes in creating Chimeras. He allows Edward and Alphonse to look into his research as he tries to prepare for the annual reviews.

Affably Evil: In spite of his lack of scruples, he's still very mild-mannered and polite.

Asshole Victim: The first State Alchemist Scar kills. The Elric brothers don't seem to care about his death, as opposed to that of Nina and Alexander. The author even acknowledges this, as he's the only one to end up in Hell during Arakawa's "In Memorium" comics. Even Envy, Barry, Lust and Kimbley ended up in Heaven, so it really puts into perspective how horrible Tucker was.

In the Brotherhood anime, they add a scene after Ed's done beating the stuffing out of him and while Al's trying to comfort Ninaxander. Shou just crawls up to a watch on the floor and happily declares that he'll get to keep his job. Yeah, there's a reason why the characters, the fandom and the author universally despise this guy.

For Science!: The primary reason why he turned his daughter and dog into a monster? To see if he could.

Four Eyes, Zero Soul: And zero remorse about turning his wife, and later his daughter and dog, into twisted abominations, for that matter.

Guinea Pig Family: Uses his own wife and daughter as experiments in order to keep his job.

Knight of Cerebus: Although it started with a horrifically failed attempt at resurrecting their mother, Fullmetal Alchemist begins kind of hopeful with Edward and Alphonse Elric traveling to find the Philosopher's Stone to set things right. Then they encounter Tucker, whose experiments that transformed his wife, dog, and daughter into pained chimeras, give a sign of the darker events that will follow.

Lack of Empathy: A somewhat lesser case than others in the series, but he does have no regrets about turning his wife and daughter into chimeras.

Mad Doctor: Using your own family as guinea pigs isn't the best medical practice...

Mad Scientist: He doesn't fit the traditional profile of this trope, since he's rather calm and polite at first.

Obliviously Evil: Perhaps the most terrifying example in existence, and a perfect illustration of how this trope is not a "get out of jail free card" for villains; if anything, his obliviousness makes him ten times more horrible, as he not only thought that turning his own family into his own personal guinea pigs and transforming them into inhuman abominations that can only feel pain was acceptable, he expected to be rewarded for it.

Scary Shiny Glasses: The sheen of his glasses is the first thing seen when he's standing in his dimly lit laboratory.

Soft-Spoken Sadist: He never raises his voice once, and it manages to make him seem even more messed up.

Body Horror: Her own father fuses them both into a sick parody of a humanoid dog, that's literally in constant pain due to the man's incompetence.

Cheerful ChildIncredibly adorable. Her innocence makes it downright heartbreaking to see what happened to her.

Forgotten Fallen Friend: A very, very noteworthy aversion; the Elrics never forgot about her, or her fate, and it haunts their memories for a good chunk of the series and implicitly the rest of their lives. At one point, one of True Form!Envy's faces gives Ed a flashback to it that is so painful he's rendered unable to move.

Guinea Pig Family: Her father turned her and her dog Alexander into a chimera, just like he did with her mother.

Fair Play Villain: Despite bragging about their status as mass murderers, they show Ed their weak spots to keep things sporting and plan on willingly answering Ed’s questions about the conspiracy honestly once Ed defeats them and treats them like real people.

What Measure Is a Non-Human?: The older brother remarks on the irony of being treated like people only after they've been put into a suit of armor. In fact, Ed treating them with human dignity is what motivates the older brother to spill the lab’s secrets.

Worthy Opponent: The older brother likes that Ed is actually a challenging opponent.

You Are Number Six: The brothers are referred to only by number after being assigned to guard the laboratory.

Chekhov's Gun: His research notes are vital in overriding Father's anti-alchemy buffer, and in teaching Scar how to use reconstruction alchemy. The latter is also foreshadowed by the left arm of reconstruction he sports in the flashbacks.

Cowardly Lion: Downplayed. He can't keep his legs from shaking when the Amestrian army draws near, and considers himself a poor excuse for an older brother, but is willing to make the ultimate sacrifice when Scar's life is threatened.

Good Is Not Dumb: His idealism does not make him stupid. Not only is he a self-taught alchemist from a society that looks down upon it, but he's the first non-Xerxian character to notice the nation-wide Human Transmutation Circle, and figures out how to counter Father's anti-alchemy powers before the series even began.

Spanner in the Works: The first to notice the transmutation circle around the country and begins piecing together what's going on (with the raid on his country confirming his suspicions) and quickly devising countermeasures for it. He may have died before he could execute the plan but he played a major role in defeating Father.

Wide-Eyed Idealist: Believes people are capable of working together to bring out the good in each other, and this is a large part of his motivation for studying alchemy.

Kick the Dog: On the receiving end on two counts. Scar for killing them in a Freak Out and Amestris military for signing their death warrant as collaborators with the enemy (when they were just aiding everyone on all sides).

Make It Look Like an Accident: What Kimblee was supposed to do to them, so that the military would not be forced to waste resources ensuring their protection.

An Arm and a Leg: Loses a leg in the final battle after using the Sanguine Star and crossing the Gate to save her brother.

Canon Foreigner: Both in the trope sense and in the meta sense with her country itself being this trope.

Combat Medic: Her alchemy revolves around healing, and she is no slouch in a fight.

Enemy Mine: Ends up forming one with the Elric brothers. She may not feel like they're enemies for very long, but technically they are Amestrian soldiers, and Ed in particular hates the Black Bats' plan to acquire the Sanguine Star because it sounds exactly like the Philosopher's Stone. Ed turns out to be right, and still doesn't approve of her taking the Star by the end of the movie, but otherwise he does respect her.

An inmate of Central Prison in The Sacred Star of Milos, who broke himself out of jail with only two months left before his parole, with a torn newspaper picture of Julia Crichton serving as a hint to his motivations.

Composite Character: Much like Dante from the 2003 series, he's a horrifically selfish alchemist who steals another character's face and identity, while manipulating the heroes into creating a Philosopher's Stone for him. Meanwhile, his history in the Military and Central Prison, Faux Affably Evil personality, preference to dress in white, and skill at killing people with Alchemy seems to have been lifted from Kimblee. Also, his ice powers and first encounter with the Elric brothers bears some resemblance to Isaac Mc Dougal.

Cruel and Unusual Death: Herschel impales him through the hands with giant metal spikes and then rips his head apart with a burst of alchemic energy. A gruesome end to a truly gruesome character.

Disc One Final Boss: He's eventually killed by the real Ashleigh to which the final boss role revert to him.

Face Stealer: Did this to Julia's brother to Kill and Replace him, Gender-Blender Name et al. Also stole a plot of skin off Ashleigh's side containing half of the Table City transmutation circle (the other half was on Julia). May have also done something similar (particularly the Kill and Replace part) to the real Melvin Voyager, who was a short-haired man in his twenties.

Long Lost Sibling: Invoked because he'd played himself off as this to Julia after stealing the genuine article's face.

Manipulative Bastard: So much so that while pretending to be Ashleigh, he even took into account that Ashleigh wouldn't want anything to do with the people of Milos and acted accordingly, pretending to only slowly come around to supporting their goals because of Julia.

The Sociopath: There really isn't a better term for a guy whose evil plan involves skinning a teenager alive.

Slasher Smile: He constantly pulls these when his true nature is revealed.

Walking Spoiler: Continuing somewhat of a tradition among Fullmetal Alchemist'smain antagonists, like Father, Dante, and to a more minor extent Eickheart before him.

A Lieutenant Colonel within the Cretan army, he appears in The Sacred Star of Milos as the mysterious masked leader of the Cretan force tasked with the battle for Table City. His troops also include a number of wolf chimeras.

You Monster!: Ed calls him out for his hatefulness in trying to destroy Milos, to the point of disbelieving that a guy like him could honestly be Julia's brother because of it. And this is during a time when Ed isn't particularly fond of one of Julia's decisions.

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